Coriolis Forces

Velocity-dependent forces that arise in multi-link robot dynamics due to the coupling between joint motions. They appear in the robot's equation of motion as the C(q, dq) matrix multiplied by the joint velocity vector. Coriolis forces are significant at high joint speeds and must be compensated in model-based controllers like computed torque. They vanish when the robot is stationary.

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